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No. 674,915. Patented may 2, Ism. J. H. GIARTH.

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licuton le Feb. 11, 1901 lINTTnD STATES PATENT @Tricia JOSEPH H. GIARTH,OF ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,915, dated May 28,1901. Application filed February Il, 190]. Serial No. 46,871. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom, it pta/y concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. GIARTH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Altoona, in the county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Register, of which the following is aspecication.

This invention relates to registers for hotair flues and analogousapplications; and the object of the same is to provide asimple andeffective device of this class whereby the heated-air currents will becaused to flow out equally through all parts of a register into a roomor compartment, and thus more quickly heat the latter and overcome thedisadvantages heretofore encountered in registers through the upperportions of which only the heat mainly passed into a room orcompartment, the several parts of the improved device being adjustableto regulate the amount of flow of the heated-air current into a room.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of theseveral parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a transverse vertical section of a portionof a heatliue, showing' the improved register applied thereto and alsoin section. Fig. 2 is a front s'ectional view on the line 2 2, Fig. l,of the parts shown by Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a rear sectional view of thesame.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

The numeral l designates a heat-flue of any preferred construction andprovided,as usual, with register-outlets 2 into rooms or compartments,one only of said outlets being shown, and over the outlet an open-workregister face or guard 3 is disposed. Connected to or integrally formedwith the said register face or guard 3 is a delecting box or housing 4,having closed sides and upper and lower ends, but completely open at thefront and rear, the said box or housing decreasing in width toward itslower end and the upper end constructed in the arc of a circle, as at 5.The deflecting box or housing 4: has a normal rear extent into the flue,which is xed when the improved device is mounted in operative position,and in the rear portion of the same a wing ordamper frame 6 is adjustablymoun ted and comprises closed sides '7 and a closed top 8, curvedin the arc of a circle and movable closely against the inner' surface ofthe closed upper end of the box or housing 4. The lower end of the frame6 is completely open, and said frame converges toward the lower end, thelower terminals of the sides 7 being pivotally connected to the adjacentlower portions of the box or housing sides. The top 8 of the frame G hasa pronounced rearward extent, so that its maximum rearward adjustmentwill cause it to contact with the rear wall of the ilue, so that theheated-air currents may be completely caused to flow through theregister, it being understood that the box or housing 4 and frame 6 willhe of such dimensions as to snugly vtit within the flue and fullycontrol the direction of the heated-air currents ascending through theflue when the parts are arranged as shown by Fig. l, or if thearrangement of the frame 6 be such as not to completely close theheat-flue to cause a large portion of the heated-air currents to strikethe upper or top portions of the box or housingand the said frame 6 anddeliect such currents downwardly to the lower end of the register faceor guard and insure a flow of the heated air through all portions of thelatter equally. The frame 6 is adjusted when the improved register isplaced in operative position in relation to the flue, or it may beafterward adjusted as desired by removing the register face or guard,and to frictionally hold the frame 6 in its adjusted position springs 9are secured to the front edge portion and have their free ends upturnedto frictionally bear against the lower inner side of the top of the boxor housing, said springs being strong enough to maintain the adjustmentof the frame 6 and to resist accidental movement of the latter.

Within the frame G a series of wings or damper-blades lO are pivotallymounted and decrease in size from the uppermost to the lowermost one,and when said wings or blades are open they also extend rearwardly intothe fiue and catch and direct the air-currents toward the register faceor guard. These wings or blades are also movably connected to anadjusting-bar 11, which extends from the up- IOO permost one to a loweradjusting-slide 12, having a rear longitudinally-slotted head 13, towhich the lower end of the said bar is adj ustably connected to regulatethe degree of closing movement of the wings or blades and compensate forwear, the lower end of the bar being held by a suitable fulcrum device111, which will permit it to have a pivotal swing when the frame 6 isadjustedand without interferng with the operative relation of the bar tothe Wings or blades. The outer or front portion of the slide 12 isreduced and screw-threaded and passes through a vertical slot 15 in theone lower corner portion of the register face or guard, so as to havefree vertical movement. Between the front extremity of the head 13 andthe adjacent rear portion of the register face or guard a frictionspring16 is interposed, and on the outer reduced screw-threaded portion of theslide a knob or button 17 is applied and screwed rearwardly with suchtightness as to permit free adjustment of the slide in the slot 15 ofthe register face or guard, but at the same time frictionally maintainthe degree of vertical adjustment desired, whereby the wingsor bladesmay be completely or only partially closed, as the occupant of a room orcompartment may desire.

It will be seen that the improved register will be effective in causingeither the full cu rrents of heated air rising through a flue to beregularly delivered into a compartment or room, or, if only a portion ofsuch currents are caught when the frame 6 is opento permit upper roomsor compartments'to be also heated from the same ue, the portions of thecurrents that are directed through the register-will be caused to flowequally through all parts of the latter, and thereby more quickly heatthe room or compartment with which the register communicates.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is# 1. In adevice of the class set forth, the combination with a heat-flue, of abox or housing having an open-work register-face in connectiontherewith, and a frame adjustable in the said flue and box or housingand provided with a series of Wings having an opening andclosingadjustment.

2. In a device of the class set forth, the combination with a heat-fine,of a box or housing having an open-work register-face in connectiontherewith, and a frame having a frictional adjustment in relation tosaid box or housing to have a regulable extent rearwardly into the flueand provided with means for closing the same or permitting only aportion of the heated current to pass therethrough.

3. In a device ofthe class set forth, the combination with a heat-flue,of a box or housing having a register-face in connection therewith, aframe having a frictional adjustment in relation to said box or housing,a series of wings pivotally mounted in said frame, and adjustabledevices for controlling the open- ;ing and closing of the said Wings.

4L.V In a device of the class set forth, the combination with aheat-flue, of a box or housing let thereinto and having a register-facein connection therewith, a frame having a frictional. adjustment inrelation to said box or housing, and a series of pivotally-mounted wingsin the said frame decreasing indimensions from the uppermost to thelowermost one.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH H. GIARTH.

Witnesses:

C. E. DoYLE, FRANK S. APPLEMAN.

